Liars quotes

Liars

807 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author

"Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it."

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Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson Lawyer, Author

"I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law."

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Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler Author, Novelist

"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."

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Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai Novelist

"When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint."

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John Brown Abolitionist, Military Leader
Liars

"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity."

Character Honor Liars
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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
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"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil."

War Religious Liars
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D. A. Carson Theologian
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"The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36)."

Hate Liars Wrath
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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
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"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say."

Truth Fear Liars
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Mikhail Bulgakov Novelist, Playwright
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"Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!"

Cutting Liars Faithful
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you."

Mean Lying Liars
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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that’s my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn’t fill my model of how you should be, that’s my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that’s your Karma. If I’m cheated, that’s my work on myself."

Expectations Liars Karma
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."

Lying Wish Liars
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Jefferson Davis Politician, Military Leader
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"Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar."

Men History Liars
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
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"It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God."

Real Lying Liars
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